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Paper presentation schedule

Thursday, September 3, 2026
Paper Session 1 – AI, Higher Education and Institutional Transformation
Session chair:Karmela Aleksić-Maslać 
TimeSpeakersPaper
15:00Mikael Alemu Gorsky, Ilya Levin (Holon Institute of Technology, Israel)Directing Autonomous Agents: New Core Competency for the MBA Graduate
15:20Andrzej Rudko (Koźminski University, Poland)Integrating AI Avatars into Higher Ed: Balancing Technology and Academic Quality
15:40Edda Apfenthaler, Maja Martinović, Zoran Barac (Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Croatia / Luxembourg School of Business, Luxembourg)Accreditations as Drivers of Organizational Learning and Strategic Development in Higher Education
16:00But Dedaj (University of Prishtina, Kosovo)The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Economic Professions
16:20Ivan David Dogan, Matej Nakić, Goran Oblaković (Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Croatia / Luxembourg School of Business, Luxembourg)Beyond Screen Time: Smartphone Salience as a Cognitive Predictor of Problematic Smartphone Use
Friday, September 4, 2026
Paper Session 2 – AI, Future Skills and Business Education
Session chair:Karmela Aleksić-Maslać 
TimeSpeakersPaper
13:00Vitaliy Roud (Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Croatia)What Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurs Still Need to Learn: Skill Gaps in the Age of AI
13:20Krunoslav Antoliš (University of Applied Sciences in Criminal Investigation and Public Security, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Republic of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia)Artificial Intelligence in Policing: Technologies, Ethical Challenges, and Implications for Democratic Governance
13:40Monika Sońta, Lyubomyr Matsekh-Ukrayinskyy, Maciej Mąkosa (Kozminski University, Poland / Reutlingen University, Germany)From Knowing to Doing: Redesigning Business Education for AI
14:00Thao Laavunen (Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland)From Entrepreneurial Practice to Entrepreneurship Education: A Situated Experiential Framework for Critical Digital Literacy Development
Paper Session 3 – AI, Learning and Innovation in Higher Education
Session chair:Karmela Aleksić-Maslać 
TimeSpeakersPaper
14:20Marija Ivanković (Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Croatia)Cognitive Offloading in the Classroom: Evidence from Written and Oral Statistics Exams Before and After ChatGPT
14:40Maha Alkhaffaf (Applied Science Private University, Amman, Jordan)AI-Driven Learning Analytics Capabilities and Learning Data Quality for Intelligent Academic Decision-Making in Jordanian Higher Education: A Pilot Study
15:00Yolanda López-del-Hoyo et al. (Universidad de Zaragoza / IIS Aragón, Spain)Implementation of the GAMBL Program: A Psychoeducational Intervention with a Gender Perspective for Gambling Behavior Prevention in Higher Education
15:20Branka Remenarić, Ivan Čevizović, Tonka Čevizović (Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Croatia)Exploring the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Accounting, Audit, and Tax Education: Insights from Croatian Academia and Practice

Online paper presentations

Friday, September 4, 2026
Online Paper Session 1 – AI-Enhanced Learning, Teaching and Professional Practice
Session chair:Goran Oblaković 
TimeSpeakersPaper
13:00Sven Dittes, Isabell Steidel, Ralf Dillerup, Brian Boyd (Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, Germany)Teaching Digital Transformation Through AI-Simulated Organisations: A Design Blueprint for Interactive Teaching Cases
13:20Zdravka Biočina, Sunčica Žnidar (Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Croatia)The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Business Communication within Croatian Corporate Settings
13:40Riem Yasin, Carsten Lanquillon (Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, Germany)Orchestrating Generative AI in an Immersive Learning Environment: A Participatory Design Study in Higher Education
14:00Enes Rischert, Viktor Grinewitschus, Niels Bartels, Uta Pottgiesser, Felix Meckmann (Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences / TH Köln / TH OWL, Germany)From Task Execution to Task Stewardship: AI-Induced Transformation of Task Profiles in Architecture and Engineering and Its Consequences for Higher Education
14:20–14:30Short break 
Online Paper Session 2 – AI, Digital Transformation and Emerging Challenges
Session chair:Goran Oblaković 
TimeSpeakersPaper
14:30Maria Rosaria Re, Stefania Capogna, Alessandra Natalini (Link Campus University, Rome, Italy)Prompting as a Professional Competence: Analysing Pre-service Teachers’ Prompts and Critical Appraisal of AI-Generated Lesson Plans
14:50Riem Yasin, Samir Yasin, Carsten Lanquillon (Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, Germany)From Usage Intensity to Relationship Quality: A Typology of Student-AI Use and Design Propositions for Generative AI in Higher Education
15:10Yannik Langer, Carsten Lanquillon, Seline Löwe, Tom Ochs, Elias Ottenbacher, Joshua Zürn (Hochschule Heilbronn, Germany)Standards for Machine-Readable Course Descriptions
15:30Matej Ivaniček, Yaraslau Svintsitski (Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Croatia)Input-Output Shock Propagation and Spectral Amplification
15:50Josip Tomašković (Zagreb School of Economics and Management, Croatia)Geopolitical Risk, Oil Supply Shocks, and the Macroeconomic Transmission of the 2026 Iran–Israel–U.S. War